April 23, 2012

Edgewood Wins NAC Title, Secures Spot In NCAA Championship

AURORA, Ill. -- Edgewood took a 40-shot lead into the fourth and final round of the Northern Athletics Conference Men's Golf Championship and breezed to the title with the day's lowest score of 317 today at Stonebridge Country Club.

The Eagles secured their second-straight conference title and first trip to the NCAA III Championship by virtue of the league's automatic bid to the national tournament, May 15-18, in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

Edgewood completed the four-round championship with a total of 1,251 (317-309-308-317), in front of runner up MSOE's 1,305 (315-323-336-331) and third-place Benedictine's 1,320 (319-331-337-333).

Brent Quade led Edgewood with a 307 (81-77-72-77) and was the medalist at the championship with a 19-over par. Quade won the individual title by two strokes over MSOE's Dane Zachman, who finished with a 309 (74-77-82-76).

Quade's teammate Andrew Cobb, who finished third with a 316 (77-75-78-86), joined Quade and Zachman as the only other finisher to have three of the four rounds in the 70s.

 

NAC Championship
Rounds 1-2: Whistling Straits - Irish Course, Kohler, Wis.
Rounds 3-4: Stonebridge C.C., Aurora, Ill.
Dates: Oct. 9-10, 2011/Apr. 22-23, 2012
Par:     72   72   72   72
Yards: 6750 6750 6815 6815

 

Fin.  Top 20 teams                     Scores              Total    Par
   1  Edgewood.......................  317  309  308  317   1251    +99
   2  MSOE...........................  315  323  336  331   1305   +153
   3  Benedictine....................  319  331  337  333   1320   +168
   4  Aurora.........................  327  319  365  318   1329   +177
   5  Marian.........................  357  337  331  325   1350   +198
   6  Wisconsin Lutheran.............  343  320  354  337   1354   +202
   7  Lakeland.......................  343  333  352  339   1367   +215
   8  Dominican......................  375  339  354  369   1437   +285
   9  Concordia Wisconsin............  358  356  372  368   1454   +302
      Rockford.......................  dnc  dnc  dnc  dnc    DNF     

 

Fin.  Top 20 Players        Team                              Scores             Total    Par
   1  Quade, Brent......... Edgewood.......................   81   77   72   77    307    +19
   2  Zachman, Dane........ MSOE...........................   74   77   82   76    309    +21
   3  Cobb, Andrew......... Edgewood.......................   77   75   78   86    316    +28
   4  Winistorfer, Colin... MSOE...........................   76   76   85   81    318    +30
   5  Gaudynski, Jake...... Wisconsin Lutheran.............   86   79   81   76    322    +34
t  6  Ashbeck, Cory........ Marian.........................   87   82   79   79    327    +39
t  6  Baumann, Adam........ Aurora.........................   79   82   86   80    327    +39
t  6  Cobb, Tyler.......... Edgewood.......................   84   79   83   81    327    +39
   9  Kunz, Justin......... Benedictine....................   81   85   86   78    330    +42
t 10  Lagerstrom, Dan...... Benedictine....................   80   81   82   89    332    +44
t 10  Richardson, Max...... Marian.........................   91   80   82   79    332    +44
t 12  Freitag, Jeffrey..... Benedictine....................   79   84   86   86    335    +47
t 12  Laubusch, Ben........ Lakeland.......................   85   80   85   85    335    +47
  14  Kranz, Logan......... Edgewood.......................   80   82   91   83    336    +48
  15  Loftus, Scott........ MSOE...........................   91   80   81   85    337    +49
  16  Frawley, Danny....... Wisconsin Lutheran.............   79   80   91   90    340    +52
t 17  Jones, Eric.......... Benedictine....................   83   82   92   86    343    +55
t 17  White, Garrett....... Aurora.........................   85   83   94   81    343    +55
  19  Balistierri, Brian... Lakeland.......................   88   86   83   88    345    +57
  20  Swetman, Dale........ Aurora.........................   89   79   93   85    346    +58